My last name is Dinallo and right now i am in my world cultures class and need to make a coat of arms. can you please give me a link or w.e to help me find what i need to put on my shield. i need this asap. thanks
Help Me Find My Coat Of Arms Please.?
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Posted by Admin on 07 Feb 10 - 3 Comments
3 comments for “Help Me Find My Coat Of Arms Please.?”
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storkarh
Your teacher told you to find your coat of arms based on your last name?
Yikes! Your teacher has fallen for the biggest scam on the internet: surname coats of arms. There are many sites that sell “surname crests,” and all they do is associate a bunch of related surnames with an image. Of course, they do not tell the customer that someone unrelated was granted (or assumed) the coat of arms, and that many people of the same surname had different coats of arms.
If you want to find your coat of arms, then you need to research your male-line genealogy as far back as possible. Then contact the heraldry society in your country for some help.
If you can’t find a patrilineal armiger, you might want to make your own coat of arms. You should think about what symbolizes your life and perhaps your ancestors’ history. For a quick project, you can find symbols from your ancestral home. The meanings on sites like http://www.fleurdelis.com are bogus, and are taken from a widely discredited book. There are no “fixed” meanings in heraldry.
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Shirley T
As the above stated, coats of arms do not belong to surnames. They were granted to or assumed by an individual man.
The rules of inheritance can vary from country to country. They usually are passed down to the direct legitimate male line descendants. However, if there is no male heir, a female might inherit one.
Also sometimes a woman of prominence has one granted, like Queen Elizabeth.
Anytime you used a coat of arms being sold by peddlers on the internet, at shopping malls, in airports, in magazines etc like it belonged to you,
you would be guilty of usurping another’s identity.
If you have pride in yourself and your family, you certainly don’t want to use another’s identity. In some countries you can be prosecuted for doing that.
The bad thing about them is a family history usually comes with them. The family history on any one of them will not necessarily be the family history of everyone with that particular surname.
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Ted Pack
http://www.fleurdelis.com/meanings.htm
Pick ones that you like and have meanings for you.